Digital BW, The Print

Yahoo’s situation is a bit unique and not really representative of this type business. They have had lousy leadership for years in that they stayed at a status quo and not moving to new segments.. Then comes Google and Facebook and their management just did not react properly at all. The only reason they’re still afloat is Alibaba. If it weren’t for that they would have died some time ago. It’s sad, I know , but their management and CEO really screwed up.. 

 

jimbo

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 8:14 AM
To: DigitalB&WPrint
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Yahoo migration?

 

  

That new groups.io system for the wide format forum does seem to have access to the archives.  

 

I never understood how the companies that run these make any money from them.  There does not seem to be enough (if any) advertising.  While I appreciate that, failure to monetize ends up with the company simply failing -- which seems to be Yahoo's fate if they don't do something different.

 

Paul

www.PaulRoark.com 

 

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Ben Albu ben@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m> wrote:

  

Hi Paul,

I didn't look at it thoroughly, but I guess migrating the archives of Yahoo groups would be possible. In fact it seems that is possible to migrate the whole Yahoo group.

Searchability won't be a problem. Take a look into this existing group: https://groups.io/g/EpsonWideFormat/messages?start=1:2016:-120

R,

Ben

 

On 4/05/2016 22:58, Paul Roark roark.paul@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] wrote:

  

Is there any way to preserve the archives and searchability of them?  That is a resource and history that would be ashamed to lose.

 

Paul

www.PaulRoark.com 

 

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Mark Savoia mark@stillrivereditions.com [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

I can chime in as co-moderator of the EpsonWideFormat group (over 6500 members).

 

groups.io did a great job of the transition. Many new features that Yahoo just could never get right. I recommend.

 

Mark

stillrivereditions.com

 

On May 4, 2016, at 3:34 PM, 'forums@walkerblackwell.com' forums@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 



EpsonWideFormat just migrated to  <http://groups.io/> groups.io. The transition was quite seamless. It went live today. 

 

I suggest that. The person who started groups.io <http://groups.io/>  is the same person who started Yahoo groups.

 

best,

Walker

 

On May 4, 2016, at 3:28 PM, djon43@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

 

First, it's not a sure thing that Yahoo will abandon Groups or Mail, but that does seem possible.

 

Google Groups may be most similar to Yahoo Groups....but I suspect that, with Google, Photos (including old ones/legacy) wouldn't be integrated the way they are with our Yahoo group...they would have to be moved/sent independently to Flickr... 

 

In any case our admin or someone else with access should try to save current member contact list w/email to Excel or Google version of Excel.  That would enable restoring relations that might otherwise be lost.

 

We might instead consider a blog, perhaps via  <http://wordpress.org/> Wordpress.org (which might be free). 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 



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